Governo de Moçambique e a União Brasileira do Biodiesel e Bioquerosene (Ubrabio) assinaram acordo para ampliar investimentos na expansão de produção de biodiesel sobre os 36 milhões de ha de terras agricultáveis do país. As gigantes da energia Total e Eni já estudam de biodiesel a partir do coco, palma e caroço de algodão, algo que pode modificar o controle sobre a terra no país por corporações.
For Israeli businessman Benny Steinmetz, a dispute over a land deal he made in Romania has been the source of many of his recent legal woes, including arrests in Israel, Greece and, most recently, Cyprus.
This week's episode of Reveal looks at how Arizona pension managers fueled a crisis by investing in an agribusiness deal that depleted local water supplies.
« Les terres sont le cœur battant de nos communautés rurales. Quand elles sont accaparées, ce sont des vies entières qui sont bouleversées », a déclaré Mbaye Cissé invitant le gouvernement sénégalais à prendre des mesures concrètes pour enquêter sur ces abus et rendre les terres à ceux qui en dépendent pour vivre.
Las tierras agrícolas de Chile son cada vez menos de chilenos y más de extranjeros. Aunque hubo una ola de compras chinas para cerezas, esta ha ido amainando. Ahora, vienen de Norteamérica, Europa y Arabia Saudita a adquirir predios para producir frutas, principalmente. Ya el 20% de las exportaciones frutícolas que salen de tierra chilena lo controlan fondos de inversión extranjeros.
L'ONG et la filiale de Natixis visent à développer l'offre de solutions climatiques fondées sur la nature, basée sur la gestion durable des terres de Mirova en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie.
Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation to produce bioethanol. But Indigenous communities and environmentalists worry that the project in South Papua’s Merauke regency will lead to land grabs, ecological damage, and the destruction of traditional livelihoods.
Después de 14 años de luchas de las comunidades campesinas que afirman que se tratan de tierras de la nación, la Agencia Nacional de Tierras no logra recuperar y destinar las tierras a las comunidades, y la palma de aceite sigue imponente frente al agua.
Des organisations de la société civile libérienne, ouest-africaine et internationale, ainsi que des individus et communautés locales, sont alarmés par la nouvelle selon laquelle le géant d'hévéas Socfin cherche à céder ses parts dans la Salala Rubber Corporation sans d'abord régler ses dettes sociales, environnementales, culturelles, financières et économiques à l'égard des communautés affectées
Liberian, West African and international civil society organizations, communities and individuals are alarmed by news that SRC’s parent company, Socfin, is seeking to divest its shares in SRC without first settling its social, environmental, cultural, financial, and economic debts to affected communities.
The funding comes from the UK's CDC Group. Norfund and the US DFC.
A new World Bank report on land in Africa acknowledges the failures of large land deals but still promotes large-scale land investments.
Africa is at the forefront of the land grab crisis in the Global South, with nearly 1,000 large-scale land deals for agriculture recorded across the continent since 2000.
Experts say the economic forces now reshaping agriculture are similar to ones that have transformed residential real estate over the last two decades, with investors — from pension plans to well-to-do urban families — fuelling speculation and driving up real estate prices
Russia's Agro-Industrial Holding Company has confirmed plans for the construction of a 500 ha greenhouse complex in the Keles district of the Turkestan region.
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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